MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank says a recommendation to de-fund the operation within five years would be a serious blow to the world’s astronomers.
A committee that is assessing research facilities in the National Science Foundation’s astronomy division submitted recommendations this week to NSF leadership. It lists the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope and the Very Long Baseline Array among several facilities the division should dump from its portfolio if research funding remains flat in future federal budgets.
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